Ernest Walsh. Collapse. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Collapse

By Ernest Walsh


AS an old tree bent by ages of winds,
So I am tired;

As an oak-leaf blown out upon the sea,
I am lonely;

As a storm-conceived adventurous wave	5
Divides before its thousand lonely deaths
On alien shores,
My life shall end.